interesting article about making software RAID safer

[Scott Sullivan]

On 01/31/2011 11:22 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 01:19:24AM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
>> <http://soapyfrogs.blogspot.com/2010/04/use-linux-software-raid-cron-raid.html>
>>
>> This guy's blog seems fairly interesting.
> Debian's mdadm package has been doing exactly that for years.  Every month
> it runs a full scan on the raid.  It is absolutely a good idea
CentOS / RHEL does a check once a week.

This gets rather annoying if your running multi-terabyte arrays on less 
recent hardware, because the check can last the better part of the day. 
If you don't know it's doing it you can wake up each Monday morning and 
think your RAID has broken AGAIN.

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Scott Sullivan
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